Designing for success: Strategies to maximise planning approval

Presented by:

Jamie Osborne

Sales Director

Nimbus

Adam Dainow

Director
Caswell&Dainow

Jamie Osborne is joined by Adam Dainow, Director of Caswell&Dainow. Together, they'll explore practical design strategies to help you secure planning approval with greater confidence. You’ll learn how to avoid common pitfalls, respond effectively to local policy, and create schemes that stand the best chance of success.

Securing planning permission is one of the most critical, and often most challenging, stages in the development process.

In this webinar, Jamie Osborne is joined by Adam Dainow, Director at Caswell&Dainow, for a practical deep dive into the design strategies that can make or break a planning application. With experience across a wide range of residential and mixed-use projects, Adam will share the key principles behind successful schemes, and highlight the common mistakes that can derail them.

From responding to local planning policy and community feedback to navigating site constraints and design viability, this session is packed with real-world insight to help you strengthen your approach to development.

What you’ll learn

How to design schemes that align with planning policy and local context
The most common reasons developments are refused – and how to avoid them
Practical strategies to overcome site constraints and improve viability
How tools like Nimbus can help assess opportunities and strengthen applications

Whether you're identifying new opportunities or fine-tuning existing schemes, you'll come away with actionable insights – and a better understanding of how technology can support smarter, more successful development decisions.